Scooter Meetup
and me with no scooter….
What a long weekend. And, not really in a good way.
Saturday we were to meet up to see Wolverine at a matinee. Before going I decided to make a run to the local motorcycle shop to get a new lock for my scooter as the one I had really wasn’t working out well for me. On the way from the store to the matinee I hit a pothole and it died. Just cut out. Long story short, exactly the same problem I’d had before which they apparently didn’t fix at Cycles 128. I really wasn’t thrilled with their explanation but it did run after they got it…. for a while…
So, Diane happened to be nearby and turned around to come rescue me from where it died a couple miles from my house. We went and saw the movie, which really sucked (decent review here). The worst thing about the movie is that there was such a HUGE amount of pre-written material that was already storyboarded out in comic book form that they could have just used without having to screw with anything and had a great result. Instead they wrote something brand new that conflicted with the comic, and the other movies, and had no soul whatsoever.
Afterwards we had a crappy lunch, and then I rented a truck from Zip Car to go rescue the scooter from where I’d left it locked up, took it home and disassembled it. Did what they claimed to have done at the shop and had the same results that I had when i did it before I gave it to them: none.
Today I went to a scooter meetup which was a lot of fun, except that I had to ride my motorcycle. While there I asked one of the people about his Yamaha C3 and how it compared to his girlfriends Metropolitan because the shocks, or lack of any, has been bothering me more and more with every pothole. Unfortunately, for me, he offered to let me give it a spin. And it turns out, I fucking loved it. I drove over every bump, divot, and rock I could find in the parking lot and it handled them about 500 times better (bigger tires better shock absorbers). To make it worse, the seating position was much more comfortable for me too. Arrgh!
So, as soon as I fix the metro I plan on selling it and getting a c3. Damn you nice guy! Why couldn’t you let me continue on in ignorance?! At least the c3 isn’t as ugly as the Ruckus. I kind of like the looks of the c3 but not nearly as much as the looks of the Metropolitan. The metro is curvy and beautiful. The c3 is just blocky and utilitarian. bleh.
I say, as soon as I fix the metro because it’s honestly less annoying to do it myself than to deal with bringing it back to them and having them give me the same bullshit about “bad gas” and then charging me for it because “bad gas” doesn’t count under the warranty. I took the “bad gas” out of it last time, stuck it in my motorcycle and had zero problems by the way. One of the scooter guys offered to help me with fixing it, and if I can’t figure it out once the service manual gets here I’ll take him up on it.
So yeah, lots of running around. I think it’s pretty much like that for most Americans. We don’t have time to do shit during the week so during the weekend when we’re supposed to be relaxing we’re spending our time running all the errands and doing all the things we couldn’t do during the week. And most of them aren’t relaxing things. They’re just a different kind of work that we’re not getting paid for.
As far as the drawing goes. Not thrilled with it. Sorry. No spirit, much like the movie. But, I’m just not feeling really into attempting something else. so, again, sorry. :/
